This spring several bitcoin users noted that they can buy Starbucks coffee with bitcoins with a help of Fold mobile app. CoinFox spoke with Corbin Pon from Fold about current state of the project and plans of young company.

The Australian bitcoin trading platform Independent Reserve has made it possible for users to trade directly in Australian dollars without converting them into US dollars first. The market claims to be the first Australian exchange to operate in the national currency.

MAK Vienna became the first museum in the world to buy a work of art with bitcoins. German artist and businessman Stephan Vogler believes that bitcoin and the blockchain are the best solution for digital art.

The Bitcoin Association has appointed Gregory Simon, a co-founder of Ribbit.me, a rewards program built on the blockchain technology, as its new president after Bruce Fenton left to become the Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation. Bruce Fenton will stay with the organization as a member of the advisory board.

Representatives of btcsec.com and bitcoinconf.ru websites, blocked in Russia since January 2015, are appealing their case in Yekaterinburg. They want the authorities to unblock their websites, claiming that the decision to block them was illegal and nothing in the content of the websites justified it.